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Newspaper
The Winthrop Review
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1930
Page
8
At Lynn Council’s Executive Board meeting, a Camp Hospital and First Aid Building will be erected at Powow within weeks funded by a friend. Four bunkhouses and two new rowboats add capacity for campers and boating. A dishwashing machine enhances sanitation in the mess hall.
The camp introduces a potato and vegetable peeling machine to cut waste and save time. Additional improvements will enhance Camp Power making it more attractive for scouts planning summer stays, and applicants are urged to return forms promptly.
Middlesex Ci marks completion of examinations and advance enrollments for next Fall. Next September the college expects its greatest enrollment increase in its history.
Dunes and Juan 15 schedule a 3 PM ceremony with Whittier and the Building Committee. The Legion under Commander Frederick F. Clark plans a parade at 2:30 PM from the old Hospital on Winthrop Street to the new Lincoln Street building on Ingalls Hills. Cornerstone laying follows with brief exercises and broad attendance urged.
The Monster Parade in Winthrop proceeds with Revere street mains to High lands bridge. Widening of Revere street now law enables water mains from High lands bridge to Fauline street. Telephone and Suburban Gas and Electric will install conduits and wires during sidewalk work. Community groups and leaders, including Congressman Underhill, plan floats, decorated autos, and merchant divisions for an upcoming parade.
Chairman Tom Brath of Winthrop Post 146 announces the American Legion National Convention Committee is actively planning the October 6 through 9 event in Boston. The local post will host delegates from a Southern state and finalize entertainment and housing details.
Cauliflower offers vitamins A B and C and high water content of 92 percent. It supplies calcium and phosphorus essential for healthy bones and teeth though its fuel value is low.
A town foreman defends employing long time workers and aliens amid protests and a labor department complaint alleging shifts start before eight hours. He says he strives for fairness to job seekers and taxpayers, noting work records are available for review and other departments face similar claims.
Mrs Farquhar opens registration for a local baby show at 73 Jefferson Street near Centre Station with hours Monday Wednesday and Friday 2 to 5. Judges are Dr Michele Nigro Mrs Frank Sul livan and Miss Leona White. The event at Junior High School Hall on School Street aims for orderly seating and rapid class calling with nine five dollar prize pieces plus two special prizes. Invited guests include the Waldron triplets and Lewis B Pierce Jr born January 5 1923 at Community Hospital. Enthusiasm predicts a record crowd for Winthrop’s event.
A young woman mails her former fiancé to burn the love notes she sent him as she prepares to marry Mr Bendleby. He replies agreeing to burn her notes and requests his own notes be burned as well.
A boy recalls Daniel Roe who dug a family ditch to flood a cranberry meadow then watched his life work fade as time changed. The narrator reflects on monuments built not by stone but by people and their influence across generations.
A humorous reflection on worms with fables of John G Worm and Frederick L Worm, noting fate, fame, and Darwin's neglect of the vast unseen majority. The piece contrasts dramatic surface successes with the ordinary life hidden underground.
The piece extols earth worms as essential to life and crops, arguing Darwin’s book on them deserves education alongside great biographies. It questions human pride, praising the mass loyalty beneath surface life and suggesting vast purposes beyond human reckoning.
Massachusetts Elks held their annual State Convention at Oak Bluffs Martha's Vineyard on June 7 8 and 9 attracting about six hundred Elks and ladies. The retiring President Thomas J Brady received a tribute and William E Earle was elected and installed as new President. Daniel J Honan represented Winthrop Lodge and delivered the Eleven O Clock Toast at the Grand Ball.
The article recalls seventeenth century London as a hazardous place in high winds and notes Pepys vivid account of the great storm of 1665-66. It contrasts past danger with modern city life and describes the peril of walking streets where bricks and tiles fell from houses during the tempest.
Edith Agnes Glassett daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Glassett of Court road married Leroy Gardenier of Portland Maine in a ceremony conducted by Rev John T OBrien with a nup tial Mass by Rev Thomas Lane. The bride wore ivory satin and a lace veil and was given away by her father. Marion Whelan Orient Heights attended as bridesmaid. John Gardenier served as best man. Leo Whelan sang during the Mass. A family reception followed and the couple planned a motor trip to New Jersey and Atlantic City before settling at 117 Court road.
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